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I Actually Think The Same Things Do Make Most People Happy. The Differences Are Extremely Small, And Around The Margins. You Like Peach Ice Cream; I Like Strawberry Ice Cream. Both Of Us Like Ice Cream Much Better Than A Smack On The Head With Two-by-four.

What’s So Curious About Human Beings Is That We Can Look Deeply Into The Future, Foresee Disaster, And Still Do Nothing In The Present To Stop It. The Majority Of People On This Planet, They’re Overwhelmed With Concerns About Their Immediate Well Being.

When We Have An Experience -- Hearing A Particular Sonata, Making Love With A Particular Person, Watching The Sun Set From A Particular Window Of A Particular Room -- On Successive Occasions, We Quickly Begin To Adapt To It, And The Experience Yields Less Pleasure Each Time. Psychologists Call This Habituation, Economists Call It Declining Marginal Utility, And The Rest Of Us Call It Marriage

We All Have Direct Experience With Things That Do Or Don't Make Us Happy, We All Have Friends, Therapists, Cabdrivers, And Talk-show Hosts Who Tell Us About Things That Will Or Won't Make Us Happy, And Yet, Despite All This Practice And All This Coaching, Our Search For Happiness Often Culminates In A Stinky Mess. We Expect The Next Car, The Next House, Or The Next Promotion To Make Us Happy Even Though The Last Ones Didn't And Even Though Others Keep Telling Us That The Next Ones Won't.

If Someone Offered You A Pill That Would Make You Permanently Happy, You Would Be Well Advised To Run Fast And Run Far. Emotion Is A Compass That Tells Us What To Do, And A Compass That Perpetually Stuck On North Is Worthless.